Ranulf I of Aquitaine

Ranulf I of Aquitaine (820-866) was Duke of Aquitaine from 852 to 866, preceding Louis the Stammerer.

Biography
Ranulf was born in 820, the son of Count Gerard of Auvergne and Matilda Karling (daughter of Louis the Pious and Ermengarde of Hesbaye), and he was from the House of Poitou. Ranulf was one of the nobles of the Frankish Empire that fought at the Battle of Brissarthe against the combined forces of Salomon III of Breizh and Haesteinn of Naoned in 866, and both Ranulf and Robert the Strong were slain in that battle.